Calendar of economic releases for December 7, 2017

What's up in the Asian Pacific session on Thursday....

  • AiG performance of construction index for November ( Australia) will be released at 5:30 PM ET/2230 GMT. Last month the index came in at 53.2. There is no estimate for the current month
  • Japan's official reserve assets will be released for November. There's no estimate. Last month the official reserve assets totaled $1.2609 trillion. It will be released at 6:30 PM ET/2350 GMT.
  • Japan's flows into foreign bonds and stocks and foreign flows into Japan assets will be released for the current week. Not a big mover typically. The data will be released that 6:30 PM ET/2350 GMT
  • Australia's trade balance for the month of October will be released at 7:30 PM ET/0030 GMT. The estimate is for A$1400M vs A$1745M
  • Tokyo average office vacancies from November will be released at 9 PM ET/0200 GMT. Last month it came in at 3.02/
  • Japan leading indicators for October release that 0500 GMT. The estimate is for the index to come in at 106.1 versus 106.4. The coincident index is expected to come in at 116.2 unchanged from the prior month.

Japan will auction thirty-year bonds at 10:45 PM ET/0345 GMT.